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probonopd / Wayland.md
Last active December 30, 2025 00:02
Think twice about Wayland. It breaks everything!

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

tl;dr: Wayland is not "the future", it is merely an incompatible alternative to the established standard with a different set of priorities and goals.

Wayland breaks everything! It is binary incompatible, provides no clear transition path with 1:1 replacements for everything in X11, and is even philosophically incompatible with X11. Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating e

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josiahcarlson / redis_simple_chat.py
Created June 24, 2011 22:07
A way of implementing a poll-based chat inside Redis
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redis_simple_chat.py
Written June 24, 2011 by Josiah Carlson
Released under the GNU GPL v2
available: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Other licenses may be available upon request.